As you know, there are two lightning talk sessions, on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, and there are still open talk slots.

We have re-opened the talk submission page, so if you want to give a lightning talk, please go ahead and submit it! Please remember to check the 'Lightning talk' duration checkbox, saving the Gong Master™ the trouble :)

As a new feature, it is now possible to create a personal schedule in Act (the conference system we use). If you go into the Schedule. You can tag (star) what talks you want to listen to.

Under the menu point 'Personal Schedule' your very own personal schedule will now become available. If you have not tagged any talks in the schedule a personal schedule will of course not be available.

Thanks to Eric Cholet (echo) for developing this and making it available. Act just keeps getting better and better.

One of the leading European web hosting providers, One.com, has kindly offered to sponsor the Attendees Dinner. One.com use a lot of Perl back-stage, and we're delighted to have them support YAPC::Europe.

We are very pleased to announce that GratisDNS will join the group of sponsors for YAPC::Europe. GratisDNS has always been very supportive of the local Open Source community, and we're most happy to have them on board.

We are very happy to announce that Google will be sponsoring this year's conference t-shirts. We cannot have a conference without official t-shirts so you can show that you were there - Google makes this possible.

The preliminary conference schedule is available now.
All in all, 75 standard duration talks have made into the conference program.
Please note that changes to the schedule are likely at this stage.
We hope you like the program and we are looking forward to meeting you in Copenhagen.

The window for submitting talks for this years YACP::Europe conference has been closed. We have received about 94 talks we have to shuffle into the regular schedule.

We hope we can make a schedule for interest of all, but due to time constraints, some talks will not be accepted for various reasons, but we hope we can schedule a marvelous YAPC::Europe with something for everybody. The diversity in topics in the submitted talks certainly gives us the opportunity to do so.

All the submitted lightning talks have been accepted. Please note that lightning talks are still accepted up until the scheduled lightning talk session or we run out of time in the lightning talk session schedule

Since we know of a number of people who missed the submission deadline, and we are always interested in more talks to be able to choose from, we extended the talk proposals submission deadline until Thursday, 29th May 2008.

We are very happy to announce that both Patrick Michaud and Jonathan Worthington have accepted our invitations to YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen. So Perl 6 development will be strong in representation at the 9th. YAPC::Europe conference.

Both Jonathan and Patrick will be giving talks on Perl 6, Rakudo and other things Perl 6.

We are hoping to be able to team up even further on this, please keep an eye on the news feed for updates. Christmas draws closer...

The YAPC::EU 2008 organizers are happy to announce that the Call for Papers for this year's big European Perl event has officially opened. The deadline for submissions is 25th May 2008, but there is no need to wait until the last moment, get your talk on the list right away!

Due to a hardware failure a couple of weeks ago, the conference contact address was rendered offline. We have now moved to other hardware, and are again able to receive and respond to questions and comments sent to .

If you tried sending us stuff during these past few weeks, please resend it.

The dates for the annual YAPC::Europe conference to be held in Copenhagen in 2008 have been settled. The hosts, Copenhagen Perl Mongers, are happy to inform you that the event will take place across 3 days, from Wednesday the 13th to Friday the 15th of August 2008, at the magnificent venue of Copenhagen Business School.

The venue is a modern school in the heart of Copenhagen, which will provide a great frame for Yet Another Perl Conference in Europe with the theme of 'Beautiful Perl' in wonderful Copenhagen.

Informational wiki is available and future announcements will be published on the conference website, http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ and in other relevant fora.

Thank you for you attention - hoping to see you in Copenhagen in 2008 for YAPC::Europe,